Friday, November 13, 2009

Today, 650 state workers to lose jobs to help Hawaii close budget deficit

**whoops, only 84 state workers will be axed today. More accurately, the mass firings "starts" today. The newspaper that I took the story from even deleted their own error. Which you know led to my error.**....which only means that people planning to move to the islands should buy round-trip airline tickets. That way in case they ever exhaust their life savings they could hawk the return-trip portion of their airline tickets to buy groceries. For the moment, employment prospects are bleak here, obviously. You can still collect empty bottles at 5¢ each. Also, by the looks of it, it seems that more troops are gonna be deployed to Afghanistan. The troops can't reasonalbly quit the military now because they'll be out of work in the civilian sector in a down economy. By that measure, if it wasn't for the War, the US military wouldn't need the current level of enlisted men and women. What a hypothetical scenario that would make employment-wise, mainly because the troops would be booted off the US bases with more zeal than they were pursued to enlist. If there were no War, the savings would be spent on domestic programs and it's financial surge would lift the economy? It might, but that would take a few years to induce the desired product, and meanwhile.

kahuku- we all have to make or self-generate our own employment opportunities with the situation with the economy, and there's a lesson in there. A rousing applauds to you for having the gumption to do just that, if not, possessing the wherewithall well in advance of the economic downturn.